While most authorized Post Offices are attending without remarkable incidents and by strict prior appointment migrant people who can carry out the paperwork regularization in person since this Monday, long queues are multiplying in the services that the city councils have set up to speed up mandatory procedures. Since Thursday the 16th, applications can also be made online, but it is this Monday that in-person procedures have opened. The delay in the publication of the required documents has meant that today the bulk of the 150,000 beneficiaries estimated for Catalonia are still pending to collect all the necessary documentation.In L'Hospitalet, the queue goes around the enormous La Farga building, where the social vulnerability report and the municipal population register certificate are processed. The City Council expects to attend to 1,500 people today out of the 27,000 who already live in the municipality. The first applicants began to arrive before midnight this Sunday. The sisters Sandra and María, Colombians who have resided in the city for three years and seven months, have been waiting since 4 in the morning. "If they had told us from the beginning that we needed the vulnerability, three-quarters of those of us who are here today would already have the report," they lament, without being sure that officials can respond to everyone in the queue today.

The process to request the extraordinary regularization of migrants is already underway. From Thursday, April 16, procedures can be carried out online, and from Monday the 20th, they can also be done in person, with mandatory prior appointment, at the Social Security and Post Office branches. More than half a million people living in Catalonia and Spain irregularly can benefit from the regularization, and the procedure is open until June 30.

Right now, if a citizen wants to buy an electric car or install a charging station at home, it will take, on average, two years and six months to receive aid from the Generalitat (Catalan Government). But there are much more essential aids, such as the recognition of dependency status or disability status, which the administration takes almost a year to resolve. With the aim of reducing waiting times, the Government activated an emergency plan in November to streamline the ten procedures with the greatest impact on citizens, with more than 650,000 applications last year alone. Of these, eight are in the process of being remodeled with measures implemented that have already yielded the first results, according to the Catalan government.